5am...& I'm fully awake for the day, after a pretty sleepless night....

I spent the entire night dozing in 2 hr increments...owing mostly to the damned air con....My air con & I have a turbulent relationship....Like me, it is old & cranky...& likes to be as difficult as possible, given half a chance...LOL

At best it will maintain a semi proficient temp of about 22 degrees (even while insisting it is really on 17 degrees)...& needs the wall fan on to supplement it....At its worst, it stubbornly fluctuates all over the show (I swear it sniggers nastily, while doing this!)...One moment you wake up, with icicles hanging from your nose...needing to get up & turn the supplementary fan off.....Shortly thereafter you wake , floating in a pool of sweat, while it puffs pathetic, gasps of little breaths at you....

This was the situation last night...hot, cold, hot cold...until I was swearing at the evil old thing! It has a very self satisfied air about it this morning..."HAHA Got ya!!!!"

But....I cannot blame it entirely....Tomorrow I head out to Thailand...& I'm in "one more sleep" mode...Lol....Funny isnt it...no matter how old you get you never get over that childish excitement, of going somewhere (even if it is somewhere you dont really want to go...lmao)....

So...I sit here wondering if I can be excused for being impolite, & blundering my way in the semi dark, through the sleeping bodies of the family, sleeping on the floor in the lobby below....to get an extra early fix of my morning coffee...

But...wait! Just in time I remember it is the second Sunday....the ONE day in the fortnight that the coffee stall family have a day off....BUGGER!

I will have to wait for another couple of hours, when I will walk my tired old bod, a few blocks away, to the local market (as in...not a tourist market), where I go fortnightly to buy fresh bunches of sweet smelling lilies, fresh fruit & veg, & the BEST coffee in all Vietnam! (in my opinion anyway)A tiny little local cafe....where they greet me with huge smiles, & serve up the PERFECT combination of sweet bitterness & ice....while I perch my lanky legs, & big bum on a tiny stool, with my knees up under my chin...lol

Vietnam has some of the best coffee in the world...it is the worlds 2nd largest exporter of coffee beans, just behind Brazil...but this cafe exceeds all expectations...(I'm drooling thinking about it!)I limit myself to visiting only once every two weeks, simply because it is so good, I usually have at least 2 glasses & sometimes 3...that would be seriously over the top every day!I bounce home in a jittery mess...LMAO

So...tomorrow I am off on another adventure...I,m only gone for 6 days, so am not bothering to take my beloved laptop with me....the budget hotel hasnt got Wifi in the rooms, so not worth the hassle of dragging it around...

But, never fear...I have bought a lovely new notebook, to jot down the daily happenings, & will catch up on my blog when I get home again....

Dont you just love new notebooks?All those lovely empty pages, just waiting to be written on...As much as I love my laptop, I do miss handwriting onto paper....one of the joys that technology has ruined, eh?

So...see you all on the bright side, when I come back home to my wonderful Saigon alley...

Hi there. By now you will probably not long be back from Thailand, I hope you had a good time there and it wasn't too touristy for you. Absolutely loved your tale of the mysterious booby grabbing man. You are obviously loved by your neighbours and landlords. We all good here xx